Korean media: Japan Meteorological Agency's typhoon warning marked Dokdo as "Japanese territory" causing controversy
[Global Network Reporter Fu Jiajun] According to Yonhap News Agency on the 5th, when the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a weather warning for the super typhoon "Xuan Lannuo" on the same day, it marked Dokdo (called "Takeshima" in Japan) on the map as "Japanese territory" has sparked controversy in South Korea.
According to reports, Professor Xu Jade, a professor at Sungshin Women's University in South Korea, said on the 5th that when the Japan Meteorological Agency issued a weather warning for the super typhoon "Hen Lannuo" on the same day, it displayed the predicted route of the typhoon northward on the map, and at the same time, the independent map displayed on the map was displayed. The island is marked as "Japanese Territory".
According to the report, Xu Jade said that this is clearly a provocative act by Japan against the territory of South Korea, and Dokdo is clearly the territory of South Korea in terms of history, geography and international law.
Xu Jade has sent a protest email to the Japanese side on this matter, requesting the Japanese side to change the mark of Dokdo on the map to "Korea Territory", and also attached a video introducing the content of Dokdo as "Korea Territory" in Japanese. .
Yonhap News Agency said that the Japan Meteorological Agency and Japan’s Yahoo website have previously marked Dokdo as their own territory in weather forecast applications.
In addition, the map of the torch relay route displayed by the Japanese government on the official website of the Tokyo Olympics last year also marked Dokdo as "Japanese territory".
On the morning of the 5th, after a number of Korean mainstream media reported on the matter, it caused a huge public controversy, and Korean netizens expressed their anger.
A Korean netizen asked Japan in a message under a related report: "How can a place that (Japanese) can't live or have (sovereignty) become your country's (territory)?"
Some netizens expressed their dissatisfaction that the South Korean government has not spoken out on the matter, writing: "Why is it only a South Korean professor who personally protested this... Why did the South Korean Foreign Ministry go!"
According to public information, Dokdo is located about 90 kilometers east of Ulleungdo in the eastern waters of the Korean Peninsula. It consists of two small islands in the east and west and dozens of surrounding rocks, with a total area of about 0.18 square kilometers.
South Korea, North Korea and Japan all claim sovereignty over the island.
South Korea has effectively controlled Dokdo since 1953.